The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 5J. Rivington, 1824 - English literature |
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... writer , Archbishop King , in his sermon on Divine Predestination , 1709 , which was answered by Anthony Collins , author of the Essay on Free - thinking . The person who wrote the spirited and elegant anonymous letter to Dr. Warburton ...
... writer , Archbishop King , in his sermon on Divine Predestination , 1709 , which was answered by Anthony Collins , author of the Essay on Free - thinking . The person who wrote the spirited and elegant anonymous letter to Dr. Warburton ...
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... writer , either ancient or modern , did not know his own meaning ? —and is it fair or candid , when the author is no more , not only to discard the interpretation which he has himself expressly approved , but to impose upon his work a ...
... writer , either ancient or modern , did not know his own meaning ? —and is it fair or candid , when the author is no more , not only to discard the interpretation which he has himself expressly approved , but to impose upon his work a ...
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... writer : " Mr. Pope's Essay on Man is a real vindication of Providence against libertines and atheists ; who quarrel with the present con- stitution of things , and deny a future state . To these he answers , that whatever is , is right ...
... writer : " Mr. Pope's Essay on Man is a real vindication of Providence against libertines and atheists ; who quarrel with the present con- stitution of things , and deny a future state . To these he answers , that whatever is , is right ...
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... writers , as he might be a very good Ca- tholic without such opinion , it being the express doctrine of the Roman ... writer , could have given him of- fence ; but it must be recollected that one chief object of the poem of Racine is to ...
... writers , as he might be a very good Ca- tholic without such opinion , it being the express doctrine of the Roman ... writer , could have given him of- fence ; but it must be recollected that one chief object of the poem of Racine is to ...
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... writers in their great zeal to " vindicate the ways of God , " have been led to hazard principles more dangerous in their consequences than the prejudices and er- rors which it was their aim to correct . " Amongst this number , " says ...
... writers in their great zeal to " vindicate the ways of God , " have been led to hazard principles more dangerous in their consequences than the prejudices and er- rors which it was their aim to correct . " Amongst this number , " says ...
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Page 65 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 42 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 132 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Page 190 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 50 - If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Page 74 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 9 - Yet serves to second too some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to...
Page 170 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 82 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 181 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?